"Emotionally abusive parents are indeed toxic parents, and they cause significant damage to their children's self-esteem, self-image, and body image. In this remarkable book, Beverly Engel shares her powerful Mirror Therapy program for helping adult survivors to overcome their shame and self-criticism, become more compassionate and accepting of themselves, and create a more posititve self-image. I strongly recommend it for anyone who was abused or neglected as a child." --Susan Forward, Ph.D., author of Toxic Parents

"In this book, Beverly Engel documents the wide range of psychological abuses that so many children experience in growing up. Her case examples and personal accounts are poignant and powerful reminders that as adults, many of us are still limited by the defenses we formed when trying to protect ourselves in the face of the painful circumstances we found ourselves in as children. Engle's insightful questionnaires and exercises provide concrete help in the healing process, and her writing style is lively and engaging. This book is destined to positively affect many lives." --Joyce Catlett, M.A., coauthor of Fear of Intimacy

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Parents act as a mirror to show a child who she or he is. Throughout childhood there will be other mirrors, but children inevitably return to the reflection in that original mirror in order to determine their goodness, importance, and self-worth. In Healing Your Emotional Self, Engel offers her highly effective Mirror Therapy program to help you reject the distorted images your parents either intentionally or unintentionally projected onto you. She explores the seven types of emotionally abusive or neglectful parents and the seven most common parental mirrors, providing specific advice and recovery strategies for each one.

Helping you raise your self-esteem and improve your self-image, this innovative step-by-step program provides you with the skills you need to:

Learn self-nurturing and set effective limits to help you control your tendency to overeat, drink too much, overspend, and/or overwork

Become the person you are meant to be by being more accepting of yourself

Learn to love who you see in the mirror with the breakthrough program found in Healing Your Emotional Self.
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"Emotionally abusive parents are indeed toxic parents, and they cause significant damage to their children's self-esteem, self-image, and body image. In this remarkable book, Beverly Engel shares her powerful Mirror Therapy program for helping adult survivors to overcome their shame and self-criticism, become more compassionate and accepting of themselves, and create a more positive self-image." Susan Forward, Ph.D., author of Toxic Parents

"Engel's insightful questionnaires and exercises provide concrete help in the healing process, and her writing style is lively and engaging. This book is destined to positively affect many lives." Joyce Catlett, M.A., coauthor of Fear of Intimacy

In Healing Your Emotional Self, Beverly Engel, one of the world's leading experts on emotional, physical, and sexual abuse, explains how to heal the damage to your self-image and self-esteem caused by negative parental messages and offers treatment to help you lead a happier and healthier life. This breakthrough guide is designed to help you reject the distorted images your parents either intentionally or unintentionally projected onto you. Step by step, this innovative method will give you the skills you need to quiet your inner critic, boost your self-esteem, create a positive self-image separate from your abusive parents' distorted picture, discover who you really are, learn self-nurturing, and become the person you are meant to be.

Most helpful customer reviews

This book has been helpful, informative and applicable to aiding the recovery from emotional abuse. It also is inspirational in making the reader aware of many aspects of the abuse and how to deal with it.Therefore it is useful not only for recovery but as an educational tool. It is enlightening but be prepared for some hard work. The book also affirms many of the experiences one might doubt as truly being abusive and helps one to recognize the signs thereby helping one to deal more effectively with current abusive situations.

This is one of those books that I know I will be referring to often and have already recommended to others.

I see so many elements of my life experiences within the examples she has shared although not to quite the same degree. It felt like she was writing straight to me in language and terms so easy to grasp. Her exercises are easy to follow and the rationale makes so much sense. Thanks to Beverly Engel, I better understand my patterns and how to go about changing them for the better. I better understand why I have felt about myself the way that I have. This book affirms many of the steps I've already begun to take on my road to emotional health and not only provides guidance on how to take it further, but also infuses me with a hope that is further motivating me to continue the journey...not only for my own well-being, but also for the health of my relationships. Thank you, Beverly:)

This book really specifies the many issues in self image that even professionals do not. The program gets to the core issues and walks you through transformation in self healing... issues that you have absolutely no idea even exist because it's so far in your belief system. Absolutely amazing!!

Many great and amazing books to help change our life this is a most definite choice to have weather for yourself personally or for any self development and or professional in mental health area to have in hand...